Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, An essay on perspective

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            in the Perpendicular R S, continued equal to R S,
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            and draw f i parallel to the Baſe Line, in which
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            take the Point f in E I, the ſame as F in F I ; </s>
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              <note symbol="*" position="right" xlink:label="note-0159-01" xlink:href="note-0159-01a" xml:space="preserve">110.</note>
            if the Threads which before were faſten’d in F,
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            being placed in f, and by uſing them thus faſten’d,
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            as likewiſe S Q for a Baſe Line, the Repreſen-
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            tations of the Feet of the Perpendiculars be
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            found , you will have the Repreſentations
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            their Extremities.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head192" style="it" xml:space="preserve">The Demonſtration of the two laſt Ways.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2071" xml:space="preserve">114. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2072" xml:space="preserve">If a Plane be imagined to paſs through
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0159-03" xlink:href="note-0159-03a" xml:space="preserve">Fig. 60,
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              and 61.</note>
            the Extremities of the equal Perpendiculars, it
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            will be parallel to the Geometrical Plane, and
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            will meet the perſpective Plane in S Q; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2073" xml:space="preserve">becauſe
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            R S is equal to the ſaid Perpendiculars: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2074" xml:space="preserve">Moreover,
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            the Extremities of theſe Perpendiculars form a
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            Figure in this ſuppoſed Plane, ſimilar to that
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            which their Feet form in the Geometrical Plane;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2075" xml:space="preserve">and the ſaid Figure hath the ſame Situation with
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            regard to the Line Q S, as that on the Geome-
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            trical Plane hath in reſpect of H R: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2076" xml:space="preserve">And conſe-
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            quently, if the Figure in the Geometrical Plane
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            be ſo raiſed up, that it hath the ſame Reſpect to
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            Q S, as it had to H R, and if the Appearances
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            of the Feet of the propoſed Perpendiculars be
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            found, the Repreſentations of their Extremties
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            will be had. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2077" xml:space="preserve">But the before ſuppoſed Tranſpo-
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            ſition of the Figure in the Geometrical Plane,
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            gives it the requiſite Situation with regard to
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            Q S, and the Repreſentation of the Figure
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            conſider’d in this new Geometrical Plane is
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            found ; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2078" xml:space="preserve">becauſe S Q, is taken for the Baſe
              <note symbol="*" position="right" xlink:label="note-0159-04" xlink:href="note-0159-04a" xml:space="preserve">32, 39.</note>
            O f (Fig. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2079" xml:space="preserve">60.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2080" xml:space="preserve">equal to the Height of the Eye
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            above this Plane, and fi (Fig. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2081" xml:space="preserve">61.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2082" xml:space="preserve">is the Geo-
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            metrical Line in the ſaid Plane.</s>
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